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Cultural Heritage and the Future brings together an international group of scholars and experts to consider the relationship between cultural heritage and the future.


Drawing on case studies from around the world, the contributing authors insist that cultural heritage and the future are intimately linked and that the development of futures thinking should be a priority for academics, students and those working in the wider professional heritage sector. Until recently, the future has never attracted substantial research and debate within heritage studies and heritage management, and this book addresses this gap by offering a balance of theoretical and empirical content that will stimulate multidisciplinary debate in the burgeoning field of critical heritage studies.


Cultural Heritage and the Future questions the role of heritage in future making and will be of great relevance to academics and students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, archaeology, anthropology, architecture, conservation studies, sociology, history and geography. Those working in the heritage professions will also find much to interest them within the pages of this book.

Cultural Heritage and the Future

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List of contributors











Preface





Cornelius Holtorf and Anders Hoegberg











1. Introduction: Cultural heritage as a futuristic field





Cornelius Holtorf and Anders Hoegberg





Section 1: The future in heritage studies and heritage management











2. Heritage practices as future-making practices





Rodney Harrison











3. Heritage, thrift, and our children's children





Sarah May











4. Perceptions of the future in preservation strategies (Or: why Eyssl von Eysselsberg's body is no longer taken across the lake)





Cornelius Holtorf and Anders Hoegberg











5. The future and management of ICH in China from a legal erspective





Luo Li





Section 2: The future in cultural heritage











6. Decolonizing the future: Folk art environments and the temporality of heritage





Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal











7. The spectre of non-completion: An archaeological approach to half-built buildings





James Dixon











8. An archaeology of Cold War armageddonism through the lens of Scientology





Robert Charlotte Maxwell











9. Future visions and the heritage of space: Nostalgia for infinity





A dialogue between Alice Gorman and Sarah May





Section 3: Re-thinking heritage futures











10. What lies ahead? Nuclear waste as cultural heritage of the future





Cornelius Holtorf and Anders Hoegberg











11. The future in the past, the past in the future





Rosemary A. Joyce











12. Radioactive heritage of the future: A legacy of risk





Marcos Buser, Abraham Van Luik, Roger Nelson and Cornelius Holtorf





Section 4: Heritage and future-making











13. Sustainability, intergenerational equity, and pluralism: Can heritage conservation create alternative futures?





Erica Avrami











14. Palliative curation and future persistence: Life after death





Caitlin DeSilvey











15. The future, atemporality and heritage: "Yesterdays tomorrow is not today"





Paul Graves-Brown











16. Heritages of futures thinking: Strategic foresight and critical futures





Richard Sandford and May Cassar











17. Final reflections: The future of heritage





Anders Hoegberg and Cornelius Holtorf











Index